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Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Alex Baldwin, Elle MacPherson, Harold Perrineau,
Jaws with claws, is how they billed this one and that is a pretty good analogy. Quality actors, a decent story combines with some great scenery and very good action scenes to come up with a tense and entertaining action movie. The ending is rather weak, but this is still worth watching.
Anthony Hopkins plays a clever billionaire, with a fashion model wife, and Alec Baldwin is a fashion photographer, while Harold Perineau plays Baldwin’s assistant. The three men are stranded in this beautiful mountain wilderness after a small plane crash, and must try to survive and and find a way to get home. This is a daunting problem already, but it soon becomes much, much worse when a large grizzly takes an interest in them, as well. There are some pretty neat MacGyver-like moves here and some great scenes with a very well-trained bear.
The Edge is interesting, exciting and thought-provoking, as we can’t help but wonder what we would do in such a life or death situation. I found the ending unconvincing in the context of the characters and the story, but this is still entertaining enough for a couple of hours.
